Mr Cowley

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer in partnership with J. Noble Wilson in Victoria.
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professional photographer, was in partnership with J. Noble Wilson in 1856, their studio being in Lydiard Street, Ballarat, Victoria. Cowley and Wilson exhibited a number of daguerreotypes of celebrities at their shop, including a portrait of Lola Montez, but it is unlikely that Cowley took any of them. Their assistant, J.A. Rochlitz , was the camera operator.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Davies, Alan; and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Melbourne, Vic : Oxford University Press.>, <ExternalResource: Withers, W. B. (1887), 'History of Ballarat', Ballarat, Vic : revised edition, (facsimile reprint 1980).>]